英语词汇“tributary”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	tributary
释义	trib·u·tary I. \ˈtribyəˌterē, -ri\ adjective Etymology: Middle English tributarie, from Latin tributarius, from tributum tribute + -arius -ary 1. a. : paying tribute to another to acknowledge submission, to obtain protection, or to purchase peace < bringing one territory under the domination of the other, making it tributary, or capturing its wealth — Notes & Queries on Anthropology > b. : subject, dependent, subordinate < no conquering race ever lived … among a tributary one without begetting children on it — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < the freight rates and the tariffs which were to keep the South a tributary section — Current Biography > < the elimination of poverty and the furtherance of social justice would in themselves cure all the tributary maladjustments — Oscar Handlin > 2. : paid or owed as tribute : of the nature of tribute 3. : providing with or serving as a channel for supplies or additional matter < receiving two tributary lanes from who should say what remote hamlets — Compton Mackenzie > < a tributary stream > < tributary to the city are approximately 30,000,000,000 feet of pine timber — American Guide Series: Oregon > II. noun (-es) Etymology: Middle English tributarie, from Late Latin tributarius, from Latin, adjective, tributary 1. : a person (as a ruler) or state that pays tribute to a conquering power < all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee — Deut 20:11 (Authorized Version) > 2. : one that is tributary to another: as a. : a stream feeding a larger stream or a lake — compare branch b. : a vein that empties into a larger vein
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